On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 03:14:51PM +1000, Andrew Bennetts wrote: > On Fri, Sep 06, 2002 at 02:57:37PM +1000, Brad Thomson wrote: > > I've got a problem with dpkg on Debian unstable, that's preventing further > > package installation (I can remove packages fine). > > > > Here's some output to illlustrate: > [..snip..] > > unable to create ./usr/X11R6/man/man3/XGetWMIconName.3x.gz': Too many open > > files > > No answers, but some questions that might help... > > Do you have any resource limits set (I think you can check this with the > ulimit command)? > > How many files does "lsof | wc -l" say you have open (run it as root to > get a system-wide figure).
yep it's got to be file descriptors. Check system limits 'cat /proc/sys/fs/file-max' and the lsof command Andrew mentions. Shell limits are: 'ulimit -n' (it's a bash builtin so 'man bash' and search for ulimit). Dave. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
